Describes the combined efforts of a writing specialist and a professor of sociology to develop criteria for grading papers in an introductory sociology class. The endeavor was an attempt to find a less time-consuming and less subjective method of grading papers. (Author/AV)

Describes the results of a questionnaire survey of the faculty of American University to determine their perceptions of student literacy and to discovery what kind of writing, and how much of it, is being assigned. (DD)

Discusses a short questionnaire, which may be useful in diagnosing the attitudes, apprehensions, and hostilities that can keep students from learning how to write. (DD)

Discusses the writings of Fred Newton Scott in the first quarter of the twentieth century, pointing out their applicability to English teaching today. (DD)

Describes the sequence of planning activities for the Buffalo, New York, Writing Place Project workshop and inservices, concentrating on the steps necessary to make a writing laboratory a reality. (DD)

More and more Americans are under pressure to improve their writing and speaking--but extra work may be needed to halt erosion of language. (Editor)

The author presents guidelines for teaching secondary school students how to write better business letters, including basic skills, styles and formats of letters, and current trends in business correspondence. (MF)

If educators are to fulfill their obligations to their students, their profession, and society as a whole, they simply cannot avoid taking constructive steps to improve instruction in reading and writing. (Author)

The course described in this paper aims to assist the Jamaican child to develop his basic language skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing, based on an awareness and a respect for the child's personal language and linguistic heritage. (Author/AM)

Adolescents, struggling to achieve a sense of autonomy and independence from their parents, peers, and teachers, can experience some measure of self-realization as they encounter ideas in their reading, work with them, and express them in writing. Gives a guide for writing papers and examines the problems and progress of individual students…

Lists competing forms in written French selected on the basis of three criteria: (1) expressions which can be written in two equally acceptable ways, (2) those in which the two forms differ slightly in meaning, and (3) those in which one form is considered correct but is now questioned. (MLA)

Despite a recent revival of interest in written compositions of adolescents among British psycholinguists and educationists, quantitative data on their microstructures and correlates are scanty. Detailed information on developmental trends in prose writing abilities and on their interactions with cognitive and affective processes is essential for…

Ways are outlined in which the elementary school teacher can develop a program to improve the writing skills of students. (JD)

The current danger in curriculum development is the emphasis on "who decides" to the exclusion of any emphasis on "what to teach"; effective reform programs, such as the Bay Area Writing Project, emphasize course content. (JD)

Suggests that the continuing divergence between good English teaching and the demands of the examiners is helping to undermine public confidence in schools. (Editor)